Service Overview

When 31 Studio was established by Paul Caffell in 1988 it was the first special platinum print workshop to be set up in England. Caffell, recovered a photographic process that had been hugely important at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, but which had gone into decline and seemingly been forgotten by the 1920s.
31 Studio has become the foremost specialist in hand-crafted Platinum-Palladium prints, earning a worldwide reputation. The studio performs an important role for the history of photography, restoring to our attention some of its greatest images, and often working with the greatest skill and delicacy on precious and sometimes damaged negatives. At the same time a new generation of artist-photographers have come to the Studio. Recent projects include preparing exhibitions for Simon Starling, a contemporary artist and ing images from Sebastião Salgado’s long-term project Genesis for printing in platinum.